Asus offers new Touchscreen Smartphone with Windows Mobile
Asus has announced a new Touchscreen Smartphone using Windows Mobile 6.1 that could reveal quite a bit about what a Zune Touch would be like.
They could also incorporate the Zune Software and make it a touch screen media player as well? So what are they waiting on?
Asus Rolls Out Windows Mobile Touchscreen Smartphone — Smartphone — InformationWeek
Computer maker Asus on Monday announced a touchscreen smartphone that should make mobile professionals more productive.Check out my Zune Card in the forums!The company’s latest handset — the Asus P552w — uses a Marvell Tavor 624 MHz processor to run Window Mobile Professional 6.1, and it’s capable of many productive mobile applications. The handset’s can send and receive e-mail and instant messaging, and it can view and edit Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files.
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* Code Of The RoadThe smartphone lacks a physical keypad, as all of the input is done through the phone’s 2.8-inch touch screen. Some have found Windows Mobile to be a cumbersome to use on a touchscreen device, so Asus has implemented a custom user interface it has dubbed Glide.
With Glide, a user can perform navigational functions like zooming, selecting, and scrolling with flicks of the finger. The interface can also be used with integrate applications for functions like reading news, viewing slideshows, and checking the weather.
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